豐 → 坎
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 遇其配主。雖旬无咎。往有尚。
Nine at the beginning means: When a man meets his destined ruler, They can be together ten days, And it is not a mistake. Going meets with recognition.
Line 2
六二 豐其蔀。日中見斗。往得疑疾。有孚發若。吉。
Six in the second place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. Through going one meets with mistrust and hate. If one rouses him through truth, Good fortune comes.
Line 3
九三 豐其沛。日中見沬。折其右肱。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: The underbrush is of such abundance That the small stars can be seen at noon. He breaks his right arm. No blame.
Line 4
九四 豐其蔀。日中見斗。遇其夷主。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. He meets his ruler, who is of like kind. Good fortune.
Line 5
六五 來章。有慶譽吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Lines are coming, Blessing and fame draw near. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
百狗同室，相嚙爭食。枉矢西流，射我暴國。高宗鬼方，三年乃服。
A hundred dogs in one room, biting and fighting over food. A stray arrow streams west, striking my violent land. High Ancestor campaigned against the Guifang; three years before they submitted.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire converge in Abundance, and the verse escalates from domestic chaos to imperial war. A hundred dogs confined in one room snap and bite, fighting over food — an image of internecine struggle within a crowded polity. Then a comet (枉矢) streaks westward, striking at the violent kingdom. King Wu Ding of Shang campaigned against the Guifang barbarians, and 'three years were needed to subdue them.' The verse quotes the Yijing's own Jiji hexagram line directly. From Abundance to the Abysmal, doubled water: the transformation traces how internal strife (dogs fighting) escalates into prolonged external war (three years against the Guifang), plunging the state into repeated danger that can only be endured through constant practice of virtue, as water flows ceaselessly through peril.
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